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View submission: Making it easier to host events
This is some exciting stuff!
Initial thoughts through the lens of our hopes and dreams for new Reddit over at /r/TheSilphRoad:
From what I can understand of the Event post metadata right now (which is super cool) it seems like this is best for making a post show up right as an event starts (at the 'start time'). While this is a handy new mod tool, we'd *love* to see it step up one more notch and fill an 'event calendaring' hole we (and many other communities) have.
We often find ourselves answering "when does the event start" the entire day of the event. It'd be great to be able to schedule an 'event' in the future, but make the post visible - not on the sub itself yet, but on the sidebar!
What would be awesome would be a **sidebar widget** that automatically feeds event posts (titles, start times, end times, and hyperlinks to the event post). This would allow us to truly get some excellent usage out of this feature. (The current calendar widget unfortunately doesn't really solve these needs for us at all.)
Also, we have *a lot* of scheduled in-game events/bonuses in Pokemon GO - many which overlap. It'd be amazing to be able to have *multiple* on-going events be easily reference-able by our community. While we *could* swap out stickied posts, sometimes there are 3 events on-going (as some last 2 weeks, etc), or sometimes we would schedule these with a month+ advance notice. A sidebar 'event posts' feed would be the answer to some of these gaps in functionality. It'd be awesome if the new widget system could incorporate this.
I'd be happy to chat about our use case if the product team has questions - and I doubt r/TheSilphRoad is the only community in our shoes!
Comment by 0perspective at 26/09/2018 at 19:06 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You're not dreaming.
Specifically, **post submission scheduling** (scheduling the post to submit at a custom time/date) and **scheduled post editing** (any mod in your community can edit a scheduled post up until submission) are coming. **Upcoming event calendar** (discover all events across all of reddit, subscribed communities and followed event) is something we're also really excited about but we don't have a specific timeline for it for now.